The case of logging and clear felling the proposed Great Koala National Park - On Consultation and consent 1/3

Times have rapidly changed. The old school extractive ways were perceived as legitimate under colonial extractive regimes.

Today we are confronted with an urgency of interlocking global crises of the environment and democracy. Anthropocene defaunation and an increasingly uninhabitable climate exposes human well-being under increasing threat.

'Business as usual' is no longer tenable. A new set of circumstances demands a rapid transition and consensual modes of action. Trust and legitimacy can be generated by genuine participatory deliberation of all 'stakeholders' and societal institutions.

People increasingly claim ownership of their planet and question the legality of the commodification and financialization of their only home.

Consultation and cooperation in a democratic civil society must consult all 'stakeholders' in public (digital or f2f) for a consensual outcome. The operating party has to face the affected community in person in public meetings. Stewards of biodiversity and the climate have to be present 'at the table'.
Discussions and negotiations should be public, transparent and take all aspects (externalities) into account.

Stop deforestation and clearfelling in a climate emergency
Stop eradicating ecosystems in a biodiversity crisis
Stop the denial of reality
Stop logging the proposed Great Koala National Park now

There is no consent.

#financialisation #forests #NativeForests #biodiversity #climate Emergencies #consultation #bellingen logging #save Trust

https://timcadman.wordpress.com/2023/08/18/formal-advisory-to-minister-moriarty-regarding-evidence-of-remnant-original-forest-within-tuckers-nob-plantation-compartments-026-and-027/

North Coast Local Land Services
https://www.lls.nsw.gov.au/regions/north-coast/financial-assistance/protecting-koalas-through-habitat-restoration

Richards, Carol and Lyons, Kristen (2016). The new corporate enclosures: plantation forestry, carbon markets and the limits of financialised solutions to the climate crisis. Land Use Policy 56 209-216.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.05.013
https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:398969

Coalition For The Poudre River Watershed [Northern Colorado]
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https://www.poudrewatershed.org/ <-- link to their page
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https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/c9eac99fff4e4ef18ebaac101ad9a005/ <-- web map
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“CPRW partners with landowners, government agencies, water utilities, and non-profits to collaboratively address some of the most challenging issues facing our watershed. Together, we identify the biggest problems, use science and expert input to prioritize where our projects will have the most impact and then together, we implement actions on the ground that will protect our rivers, communities, and water supply…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #webmap #watershed #ecosystem #communityengagement #PoudreRiver #Colorado #NoCo #water #hydrology #volunteer #erosion #wildlife #rivers #forests #communityoutreach #wildfire #fire #CameronPeakFire #recovery #mitigation #ecosystemrestoration #ecosystembuilding #waterresources #waterresourcemanagement #watersupply

#ForestRebellion!

Join #Elokapina - #ExtinctionRebellion #Finland's Forest Rebellion. Forest Rebellion starts 15.9., and continues to October and November.

From our webpage you'll find info about participation and trainings. Please join. You are needed!

https://metsakapina.fi/en/

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Forests #CarbonSinks #Biodiversity #Nature

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Clearing the Fog podcast with Dr Margaret Flowers 8/28/23: New #film on how #colonialism and #Capitalism are decimating our #forests https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clearing-the-fog-with-co-hosts-margaret-flowers/id601850426?i=1000626029466 #leftist

Canada in the Year 2060

https://macleans.ca/society/environment/canada-in-the-year-2060/

Summers lost to fire and smoke. Biblical floods. Dying forests. Retreating coasts. Economic turmoil and political unrest. It’s going to be a weird century. Here’s what it will look like—and how Canada can get through it.

#Canada #climatecollapse #turmoil #unrest #floods #dying #forests #survival

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From https://web.archive.org/web/20230907104340/https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2023/09/07/1196581569/climate-change-wildfire-joshua-tree-mojave-national-preserve

The "#wildfire comes as a reminder of the unpredictable future [...] Warmer, drier temperatures are already stressing the preserve's spindly Joshua trees.

Models predict those warming trends will leave Joshua trees with fewer suitable places to live. [...]

the park's dense #JoshuaTree #forests may never come back after a fire. A grassy #savannah might rise up to replace them, with a few Joshua trees scattered throughout as a reminder of what once was."

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The "#wildfire comes as a reminder of the unpredictable future [...] Warmer, drier temperatures are already stressing the preserve's spindly Joshua trees.

Models predict those warming trends will leave Joshua trees with fewer suitable places to live. [...]

the park's dense #JoshuaTree #forests may never come back after a fire. A grassy #savannah might rise up to replace them, with a few Joshua trees scattered throughout as a reminder of what once was."

https://web.archive.org/web/20230907104340/https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2023/09/07/1196581569/climate-change-wildfire-joshua-tree-mojave-national-preserve

Tūtoko River by Jos Buurmans

https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxeQ4AzROq00

#beech #cloudy #fiordland #fiordlandnationalpark #forest #forests #landscapephotography #mountain #mountainlandscape #mountains #mountainsandpeaksphotography #nature #newzealand #newzealandnativetree #rainforest #rapids #river #riverlandscape #sky #snow #snowcapped #southisland #southland #temperaterainforests #tutokoriver #tūtokoriver #nz #flickr

🍄🌲🌳What an honor to contribute the Distinguished Lecture at @WSL_research: Linking #fungal #genomics traits and ecological traits in #forests!
📸 SwissForestLab

I did some visualizations for a presentation on the topic of forest disturbances and ALS data. Combining two of my favourite R packages, *lidR* and *rayrender*.

#rstats #lidar #forests #lidR #rayrender

Sustainable Waterloo Region Microforest Program is looking for new places to #plant #microforests. "With increasing support, we are on the lookout for land to plant on in Spring and Fall of 2024."

They're specifically looking for: -Min 50msq; Non-developable & unused; Access to a water source; Relatively flat; At least 3m away from roadways; Pref areas that are mown/grown grasses or soil

https://www.sustainablewaterlooregion.ca/microforest/

@waterlooregion #trees #forests #land #sustainability

Dead Trees Around the World are Shocking Scientists

https://knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2023/dead-trees-shocking-scientists

That is, lots of dead #trees in forests. #Forests once considered stable are literally dropping away and it has people concerned.

Side: This is the one thing about #woodworking that will never sit easy with me. Illegal logging and deforestation issues have been going on for decades, but we seem to have entered a critical state where nature is also wiping out trees. We can’t keep assuming wood is plentiful and cheap.

Monopolising and overusing residential roads for the purpose of industrial extraction.

For over half a year they made a highway out of the scenic Gleniffer Road so that the forest ' stuff' can be extracted and monetised before all that 'bush' is possibly declared a Koala National Park.

When Gleniffer Road was closed and traffic went along Roses Rd., the steep and bendy road was smashed into bits by overuse in the last seven month.

Almost on a daily basis various fossil fuel trucks and machinery patch the damage with small fossil fuel 'bandages' and widen the shoulders so that they can accommodate the machinery of (forest) destruction.

Stop logging native forests
Stop logging the homes of biodiversity

#GlenifferRoad #RosesRoad #BellingenLogging #forests #NativeForests #LoggingImpacts #roads #Bellingen #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #climate #FossilFuel

Killer logging fires might just shorten your life
Increased traffic, dust
Road building machinery powered by fossil fuel
Heavy logging machines spewing fossil fuel exhaust
Repeated forest slash and burn fires with lingering smoke for months and months.
A dryer forest more prone to catch fire and accelerate climate disruption.

"Respiratory experts have called on the EU to lower its regulatory limits for air pollution in line with the World Health Organization (WHO)."

"They added that the impact of the climate emergency and human health had become interlinked and was now “irreversible”. An increase in pollen and other allergens as well as wildfires, dust storms and fossil fuel-based traffic all worsen existing respiratory conditions or can create new ones, the authors wrote in the peer-reviewed paper."

"Air pollution is estimated to have killed 6.7 million people globally in 2019 and 373,000 in Europe, with greenhouse gases and air pollution sharing many of the same sources."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/04/climate-crisis-poses-greatest-risk-to-people-with-respiratory-illnesses-experts-warn
#air #pollution #fires #smoke #logging #NSW #forests #SaveTuckersNob #FossilFuel #traffic #machinery #ForestryCorporation #BellingenLogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark

monitoring tree die-offs:

"Even people who are really knowledgeable and who have a lot of experience out in the field were surprised to see how fast these forests were going down the drain."

#trees #forests #climate #ecology #science

https://knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2023/dead-trees-shocking-scientists

Dead #trees around the world are shocking scientists. #Forests once deemed #resilient are suffering surprising die-offs. To predict the fate of the world’s #woods in the face of #climatechange, researchers need to understand how trees die. #dought #ClimateCrisis #insects #weather #heat #water https://knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2023/dead-trees-shocking-scientists

#AirPollution greatest global #Threat to human #Health, says benchmark study : Phys.org

#Tropical #Forests May Be Getting Too Hot for #Photosynthesis ($): Sci Am

The 13 #Scales that define our physical #Universe : Medium

Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

Kristina #Rizga: "An outdated land management ideology with roots in colonialism is keeping California and the America West from taking essential steps toward mitigating increasingly destructive wildfires."

"Learning how to garden a forest": https://www.rewildingmag.com/learning-how-to-garden-a-forest/ #wilderness #wildfires #nature #forests #California

“A federal judge has found that a Trump-era rule change that allowed for the logging of old-growth #forests in the Pacific Northwest violates several laws” #Conservation #ClimateAction
https://apnews.com/article/old-growth-forest-logging-pacific-northwest-trump-797090be5a0884d45eae4212d3a6f75e

“The study’s authors also found that #climatechange, #wildfires & catastrophic natural events are causing unprecedented destruction at a massive scale, making the need for forest protection & conservation even more dire” #Indigenous #Forests
https://crosscut.com/environment/2023/09/indigenous-nations-say-their-forests-are-federally-underfunded